Al-Kindy College of Medicine is the second medical college at the University of Baghdad. It was established in 1998 just beside Al-Kindy Teaching Hospital- Al Nahda Square, Baghdad. The M.B.Ch.B. the degree is given to the student after finishing the six-year course.
Al-Kindy College of Medicine used to follow the traditional six-year program approved by the higher committee for medical education in Iraq to graduate a physician with a bachelor’s degree in medicine, but in the last three years, the college has adopted a new training program that mostly depends on integration between basic and clinical postings with students centered approach, after gaining the approval for this academic training approach from the ministry of higher education and scientific research and the University of Baghdad since the academic year 2012-2013.
The Post Graduate Studies started science in the academic year 2010-2011 with:
- Higher diploma in medical education in Iraq. 2010
- Higher diploma in family medicine- 2014
MISSION AND OUTCOMES
Mission
To fulfill the goal of graduating excellent, safe, competent, and professional doctors at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels who are dependable in providing health care services and leadership.
Outcomes
Learning and practice
On completion of this six-year MBChB, integrated, student centered curriculum program, the medical graduate should be able to:
- Demonstrate a thorough knowledge of the human body’s structure and function, and competent communication, clinical and procedural skills consistent with current standards in the contemporary medicine.
- Implement a competent teamwork practice.
- Enhance your leadership skills as you learn to take a preventative, promotive, and curative approach in medical practice.
Research
- Establish the ability of self-learning, analytical thinking, and problem-solving process in preparation for professional responsibilities and community-based lifelong learning.
- Consolidate the capacity to conduct research and pursue a postgraduate degree.
Community service and social accountability
- Hold efficiently and honestly a future post in any branch of the medical profession.
- Achieve excellence in social accountability in terms of recognition and fulfillment of community health care needs and delivery system requirements.
- Adopt appropriate behavioral conduct and attitude toward patients and their families, colleagues, faculty members, and health care staff.
